Tuition-Free Colleges

cptofthehouse
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:31:30 +0000

Not free, but can be nearly free are the Maritime schools. If a student joins the Corp of Cadets and ROTC at these schools, the stipends pretty much cover tuition and maybe more. The Corp does not have a service commitment, ROTC does, but so do the Academies you have listed.

Also, though not listing by name, some private/public schools are very generous to commuters. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my last son to apply to colleges whose test scores were barely average was offered a free tuition scholarship, as were a number of good students. Some of the CUNYs offer complete merit awards including generous summer study/travel, books/supplies (Lehman, for one) for students with numbers above certain threshholds that are not way up there.